The Georgian opera singer accused of comparing gay and lesbian people to fecal matter says she is "shocked and saddened" by Australian media reports and has blamed her husband for the comments.

Soprano Tamar Iveri, who is in Sydney rehearsing Otello with Opera Australia, is under fire for a letter in which she implored Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili to "stop vigorous attempts to bring West's ‘fecal masses’ in the mentality of the people by means of propaganda".

The singer was responding to a gay pride parade organised to pass through the yard of an Orthodox Church in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Her words were posted on Facebook but later taken down.

Earlier today Iveri posted on Facebook that her husband had been using her account at the time, describing him as " a very religious man with a tough attitude towards gay people". She accuses him of changing her original letter and posting it under her name.

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"You might imagine that I was not happy with that at all and I immediately deleted it when I saw the text about half an hour later. This text does not express my own opinion," she wrote.

In the post today, Iveri acknowledges she opposed the location of the gay pride parade because of her concern that it would lead to violence in the Orthodox Christian country. The original letter posted on her site said that despite having many gay friends, "I was quite proud of the fact how Georgian society spat at the parade".

Comments underneath the new post show there is still anger about the singer's remarks.